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The Segment Anything Model (SAM), developed by Meta AI Research, represents a significant breakthrough in computer vision, offering a robust framework for image and video segmentation. This survey provides a comprehensive exploration of the…

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) is a long-standing problem in computer vision. Previous methods typically focus on predicting numerical scores without explanation or providing low-level descriptions lacking precise scores. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Guoqiang Liang , Jianyi Wang , Zhonghua Wu , Shangchen Zhou

Traditional image quality assessment (IQA) methods rely on mean opinion scores (MOS), which are resource-intensive to collect and fail to provide interpretable, localized feedback on specific image distortions. We overcome these limitations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Fadeel Sher Khan , Long N. Le , Abhinau K. Venkataramanan , Seok-Jun Lee , Hamid R. Sheikh

Image compression has raised widespread interest recently due to its significant importance for multimedia storage and transmission. Meanwhile, a reliable image quality assessment (IQA) for compressed images can not only help to verify the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Jianzhao Liu , Xin Li , Yanding Peng , Tao Yu , Zhibo Chen

Rapid advances in medical imaging technology underscore the critical need for precise and automated image quality assessment (IQA) to ensure diagnostic accuracy. Existing medical IQA methods, however, struggle to generalize across diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Siyi Xun , Yue Sun , Jingkun Chen , Zitong Yu , Tong Tong , Xiaohong Liu , Mingxiang Wu , Tao Tan

Segment Anything Model (SAM) has gained significant recognition in the field of semantic segmentation due to its versatile capabilities and impressive performance. Despite its success, SAM faces two primary limitations: (1) it relies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yuchen Li , Li Zhang , Youwei Liang , Pengtao Xie

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) is important for scientific inquiry, especially in medical imaging and machine learning. Potential data quality issues can be exacerbated when human-based workflows use limited views of the data that may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Riqiang Gao , Mirza S. Khan , Yucheng Tang , Kaiwen Xu , Steve Deppen , Yuankai Huo , Kim L. Sandler , Pierre P. Massion , Bennett A. Landman

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a deep neural network foundational model designed to perform instance segmentation which has gained significant popularity given its zero-shot segmentation ability. SAM operates by generating masks based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Yona Falinie A. Gaus , Neelanjan Bhowmik , Brian K. S. Isaac-Medina , Toby P. Breckon

Leveraging the Segment Anything Model (SAM) for medical image segmentation remains challenging due to its limited adaptability across diverse medical domains. Although fine-tuned variants, such as MedSAM, improve performance in scenarios…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Jianghao Wu , Yicheng Wu , Yutong Xie , Wenjia Bai , You Zhang , Feilong Tang , Yulong Li , Imran Razzak , Daniel F Schmidt , Yasmeen George

Traditional deep neural network (DNN)-based image quality assessment (IQA) models leverage convolutional neural networks (CNN) or Transformer to learn the quality-aware feature representation, achieving commendable performance on natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Puyi Wang , Wei Sun , Zicheng Zhang , Jun Jia , Yanwei Jiang , Zhichao Zhang , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) with reference images have achieved great success by imitating the human vision system, in which the image quality is effectively assessed by comparing the query image with its pristine reference image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Xudong Li , Jingyuan Zheng , Xiawu Zheng , Runze Hu , Enwei Zhang , Yuting Gao , Yunhang Shen , Ke Li , Yutao Liu , Pingyang Dai , Yan Zhang , Rongrong Ji

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) stands as a foundational framework for image segmentation. While it exhibits remarkable zero-shot generalization in typical scenarios, its advantage diminishes when applied to specialized domains like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Zihan Zhong , Zhiqiang Tang , Tong He , Haoyang Fang , Chun Yuan

We introduce the Segment Anything (SA) project: a new task, model, and dataset for image segmentation. Using our efficient model in a data collection loop, we built the largest segmentation dataset to date (by far), with over 1 billion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Alexander Kirillov , Eric Mintun , Nikhila Ravi , Hanzi Mao , Chloe Rolland , Laura Gustafson , Tete Xiao , Spencer Whitehead , Alexander C. Berg , Wan-Yen Lo , Piotr Dollár , Ross Girshick

Segment Anything Model (SAM), a new AI model from Meta AI released in April 2023, is an ambitious tool designed to identify and separate individual objects within a given image through semantic interpretation. The advanced capabilities of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-06 Gabriel Bellon de Carvalho , Jurandy Almeida

Image quality assessment (IQA) models aim to establish a quantitative relationship between visual images and their perceptual quality by human observers. IQA modeling plays a special bridging role between vision science and engineering…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-23 Zhengfang Duanmu , Wentao Liu , Zhongling Wang , Zhou Wang

In this paper, we propose an image quality transformer (IQT) that successfully applies a transformer architecture to a perceptual full-reference image quality assessment (IQA) task. Perceptual representation becomes more important in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Manri Cheon , Sung-Jun Yoon , Byungyeon Kang , Junwoo Lee

Image quality assessment (IQA) forms a natural and often straightforward undertaking for humans, yet effective automation of the task remains highly challenging. Recent metrics from the deep learning community commonly compare image pairs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 William Thong , Jose Costa Pereira , Sarah Parisot , Ales Leonardis , Steven McDonagh

Blind Image Quality Assessment (BIQA) has advanced significantly through deep learning, but the scarcity of large-scale labeled datasets remains a challenge. While synthetic data offers a promising solution, models trained on existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Aobo Li , Jinjian Wu , Yongxu Liu , Leida Li , Weisheng Dong

Understanding semantic information is an essential step in knowing what is being learned in both full-reference (FR) and no-reference (NR) image quality assessment (IQA) methods. However, especially for many severely distorted images, even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Pengxiang Xiao , Shuai He , Limin Liu , Anlong Ming

The Segment Anything Model (SAM), introduced by Meta AI Research as a generic object segmentation model, quickly garnered widespread attention and significantly influenced the academic community. To extend its application to video, Meta…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Lv Tang , Bo Li